Question: 1. According to the Wife, waht makes a good husband? How does she keep him that way? 2. What does the fifth husband's book have to say about women? 3. How doees the Wife react to the book? 4. At the beginnig of her prologue, the WIfe says, "Please don't be offended at my views; / They're really only offered to amuse." Does she mean it? 5. While her forth husband was away, th Wife "made a round of visitations." Why didi she go? Why shi currently traveling to Canterbury? 6. What is the purpose of the allusion to Midas in The Wife of Bath's Tale? 7. Teh wife alludes to St. paul in line 15 of her prologue, and she has her husband allude to do these two allusions serve? 8. Where might the Wife have learned all these things she alludes to? What might be her purpose for mentioning them at this time? 9. Are the Wife's arguments about how men and women should treat each other convincing? 10. Is her Tale convinving, or does it seem contrived to prove her point
2006-11-07
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